Saturday, September 6, 1997
Ready for Ground Zero
By BRET "THE HIT MAN HART"
For the Calgary Sun
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The Louisville Gardens, home of the WWF's Ground Zero
pay-per-view tomorrow, has been completely sold out for weeks!
Isn't it touching how the Americans are turning out to support The
Patriot (not!) cause by now they'll cheer for anybody who opposes
The Hitman.
The American wrestling fans mistake a short memory for a clear
conscience! I will never forget the day they turned their back on me --
April 21, 1997.
If I'd ever done anything to give them a reason to hate me, then they'd
be justified. But all I did was play by the rules. And that's why they
turned on me -- 'cause the American wrestling fans don't respect
integrity.
It drives the Americans crazy that I'm five-time WWF Champion.
Even more that that, what they really can't stand, is that all you great
fans in Canada still cheer for me -- just like they do in the U.K. and
Germany and all around the world.
With typical American audacity, Stone Cold Steve Austin, called
himself the toughest son of a bitch in the WWF. Yet Austin is still out
of action from one awesome piledriver that Owen smashed on him at
SummerSlam. Congratulations to Owen for a job well done! Don't
forget Austin is the animal that purposely destroyed my knee!
Austin will likely be stripped of the Intercontinental Title 'cause of the
30-day rule and he'll lose the Tag strap as well since he can't
participate in the Fatal Fourway at Ground Zero!
The word I get is that the tag title will be vacated and will go to the
winner of the Fatal Four way match at Ground Zero.
At Ground Zero, for the first time ever, there'll be a street fight with
triple threat rules! Savio, Faarooq and Crush can wear anything they
want and bring anything they want to prove superiority in the
Federation's age of faction warfare. I'm not holding my breath that
Commissioner Sergeant Slaughter will be able to control the other
members of Disciples of the Apocalyspe, Los Boricuas, and Nation of
Domination.
Now they're calling the fight at Ground Zero between Brian Pillman
and Goldust the Indecent Proposal match. Since there was nothing
decent about the entire idea of bringing little Dakota into this in the first
place, I'm not even going to justify that scenario with any comment at
all.
However, the match up between Goldust and Pillman has the potential
to be a heck of a good fight on it's own merit. And the best part of
Ground Zero might just be sitting back and watching The Undertaker
make Shawn Michaels rest in pieces.
Beating the Patriot, in Louisville, is a moment I've been looking
forward to 'cause when I grind the red-white-and-blue mask he hides
behind into the mat I'll be seeing the faces of all the American wrestling
fans who turned on me.
It's time I stop being so nice. I've proven over and over again that I
am, without a doubt, the best there is the best there ever will be but the
Americans just don't get it.
So when I make an example out of the Patriot,I'll show the Americans
what a real villain is!
I wouldn't blame all my fans around the world if you look away during
this match 'cause you'll see a very mean and nasty side of me that
you've never seen before.
Just keep remembering that in America, I have to fight fire with fire or
we'll all get burned.
